A three-judge panel of the 11th District Court of Appeals heard oral arguments April 18 in the case of the man convicted of murdering a Burton Township man in a botched murder-for-hire plot. Following a four-day bench trial, on May 2, 2016, Geauga County Common Pleas Court Judge Forrest Burt found Chad South guilty of kidnapping and killing 31-year-old Daniel E. Ott inside his Claridon-Troy Road home the morning of May 26, 2006. South also was found guilty of kidnapping Ott’s then-girlfriend, Maryann Ricker. Burt later sentenced the 47-year-old Moraine, Ohio, man to 28 years to life in prison. “The...
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